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Drui · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 541 Location: 'Jersey :}

Autopsy still pending, but aren't people with heart conditions strongly advised to avoid this sort of activity? I can hardly imagine what the parents are feeling right now.
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Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10432

they are, but you don't always find out in time

Bart · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 1564

Katrin · Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 293 Location: Some place HAWT

Was she fat and had high-cholesterol?

Egregius · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Posts: 171

Rollercoasters are still approx 10x as safe as travelling by plane (which is safer than walking out the door, apparently).

And we had quite a lot of plane crashes last year, so I was wondering where the rollercoaster deaths were.

Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10432

very very low, the average big coaster has a capacity of about 1200* riders per hour which is met most of the time during high season, smaller coaster still take on about 800 riders per hour. If you keep that up for a few years the numbers (even estimates for 'unique' riders) run in the millions. That doesn't make a single death or accident OK but it certainly affects the statistics...

Bart · Joined: 22 Jul 2006 Posts: 1564

And you can't really blame this dead on the rollercoaster, anything could have killed that girl.

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15474 Location: under the bed

CopperTop · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject:

My grandson had scarlet fever when he was 5 years old. There's a possibilty that he may have some underlying cardiac condition because of it. He lives about 15 minutes from an amusement park - and he does not ride the roller coasters that have warnings on them about heart conditions. This is his choice, because he realizes it could be dangerous for him.

If the parents of this poor child knew about her heart condition, read the warnings posted outside the ride and still allowed her to go on it, I have the deepest sympathies for their loss... but they're idiots for having put their daughter's life at risk like that.
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Azmoten · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2207 Location: St. Louis

Dro · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 3830

Sometimes self-reflection is the surest path to enlightenment.

But I'll help. These stress-related deaths in children are usually due to heart defects, instead of obesity-related problems. News stories about these amusement park deaths occur several times a year, it seems, see:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/30/coaster.death/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/15/disney.death/

So ignorant is apt. She isn't aware of a somewhat common and usually well-reported issue.

And I don't know Katrin's mindset when she asked, "Was she fat" but to me, at least, it comes across with a whiff of "fatty got what she deserved for being fat."

Lasairfiona · Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:54 am Post subject:

It seemed more like a bad joke to me.

And usually posting that someone was being stupid without elaborating indicates that the stupidity is so obvious that elaborating would be condesending.

Poor girl. I wonder what caused it (the articles said that they don't think it was ride related). Isn't it sad that, because of the way the media works, the result of the autopsy won't be nearly as widely known if it turns out that her death truely wasn't ride related?
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mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15474 Location: under the bed

the reason why i love dro is he says the things i think, except calmly and reasonably. and with links.

and in fact i do try to enlighten people, if i feel they are capable of acheiving enlightenment.
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